Improvement in switch-stands



WILLIAM L. MEEKERvSL F. KEARNEY.

improvement in Switch-Stands.

No. 127,700, Patented luneln, I872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

WILLIAM L. MEEKER AND FRANCIS KEARNEY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IM PROVEMENT IN SWITCH-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,700, dated June 11, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in-Railroad Switches, invented by WIL- LIAM L. MEEKER and FRANCIS KEARNEY, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey.

The invention relates to the manner of connection of the parts required for making the target and the rail move in the same direction.

In the the accompanying drawing, A is the frame. B is the target. 0 is a segment of a gear-wheel on the end of the lever that holds the target by the socket z. D is a corresponding segment on the leverbar, to the lower end of which is attached the connecting-rod y, havin g on its outer end the shoe m for the rail W. E is a bar, attached to both segments to obviate inconvenience from lost motion in the cogs,

Attest:

' W. M. GOODING,

D. H. CRAWFORD. 

